Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church Lay Academy
The Blind Leading the Blind
Matthew 15
Peter Combes – February 16, 2003                         
(The answers to the following may be multiple, or "none of the above")

1.       Jesus' disciples failed to:
                    wash their hands before meals
                    wash their feet after journeys
                    wash their mouths before praying
                    wash their clothes after journeys

2.     Jesus linked the hand-washing question with :
                    Essene baptism
                    the purity laws for priests in the temple
                    the cleansing of Naaman
                    inheritance law

3.     Jesus accuses the Pharisees of: 
                    adding to the Law
                    misinterpreting the Law
                    voiding the Law
                    rewriting the Law

4.     Read Isaiah 29: 11-14 The passage condemns:
                    prayer
                    rote learning
                    blood sacrifice
                    sabbath breaking

5.       The "blind leading the blind" were:
                    Scribes
                    Pharisees
                    Saduccees
                    Herodians

6.       Jesus said that men were defiled by:
                    non-kosher food
                    use of foreign money
                    attending unauthorized temples
                    wicked thoughts

7.         Read Mark 7:24-30  Jesus had gone to Tyre and Sidon in order to :
                    be received by the Gentiles
                    find a house
                    investigate Canaanite religion
                    be unrecognized

8.        When the Canaanite woman directly asked Jesus to exorcise a demon from her daughter, Jesus:
                    asked if she was a practicing Jew
                    asked if she attended Canaanite religious ceremonies
                    agreed
                    did not reply

9.        Jesus compares Gentiles to :
                    children
                    angels
                    dogs
                    demons

10.       After feeding the four thousand, Jesus went to:
                    Bethsaida
                    Nazareth
                    Jerusalem
                    Magadan